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Series Statement: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern German Philosophy

Content: In 18th-century Germany philosophers were occupied with questions of who we are and what we should be. Can the individual fulfill its vocation or is this possible only for humanity as a whole? Is significant progress towards perfection in any way possible for me or just for me as part of humanity? By following the origin and nature of these debates, this collection sheds light on the vocation of humanity in early German philosophy. Featuring translations of Spalding's Contemplation on the Vocation of the Human Being in its first version from 1748 and an extended translation of Abbt's and Mendelssohn's epistolary discussion around the Doubts and the Oracle from 1767, newly-commissioned chapters cover Johann Gottfried Herder's inherently cultural concept of the human being, Immanuel Kant's transformative interplay of moral and natural aspects, and the notion of metempsychosis in Fichte's work inspired by two neglected philosophers, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Johann Georg Schlosser. Opening further lines of inquiry, contributors address questions about the adaptations of Spalding's work that focus on the vocation of women as wife, mother or citizen. Exploring the multitude of ways 18th-century German thinkers understand our position in the world, this volume captures major changes in metaphysics and anthropology and enriches current debates within modern philosophy..

Note: Note on the Translations and Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: Defining the Dynamics of Being: How the Bestimmungsfrage became a Driving Force in German Enlightenment and Beyond, Anne Pollok (University of South Carolina, USA) Part I: Translations 1. Johann Joachim Spalding: Contemplation on the Vocation of the Human Being (1748), translated by Courtney Fugate, (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) 2. Thomas Abbt and Moses Mendelssohn: Doubt and Oracle On the Human Vocation, plus Excerpts from their Correspondence, 1756-1766, translated by Anne Pollok (University of South Carolina, USA) Part II: Essays 3. The Place of the Human Being in the World: Johann Joachim Spalding on Religion and Philosophy as a Way of Life, Laura Anna Macor (Oxford University, UK) 4. Between Spalding and Fichte: The Vocation of the Human Being in Mendelssohn and Kant, Gunter Zoller (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) 5. Reinhard Brandt: Excerpt from The Human Vocation in Kant, translated by Courtney Fugate (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) and Anne Pollok (University of South Carolina, USA) 6. Kant on the Human Vocation, Allen Wood (Stanford University, USA and Indiana University, USA) 7. Understanding the Vocation of the Human Being Through the Kantian Sublime, Giulia Milli (University of Genoa, Italy) 8. 'It will be well': Isaak Iselin on the Self-Realization of Humanity in History, Ansgar Lyssy (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) 9. Whose Vocation? Which Man?: A.W. Rehberg on Vocation of Man and Political Theory, Michael Gregory (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) 10. Religious Anthropology and Pluralism: Herder on the Bildung of Humanity, Niels Wildschut (University of Vienna, Austria) 11. The Doctrine of Palingenesis in Fichte's Vocation of the Human Being, David W. Wood (KU Leuven, Belgium) 12. The Vocation of Philosophy: Hegel on "Speculative" Science and the Human Good, Brady Bowman (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Bibliography Index.

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DOI: 10.5040/9781350166103

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Series Statement: Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies

Note: Intro -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Interfaces and Entanglements -- The Historical Constellation -- The Religious Field -- The Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: 'To Read in an Indian Way' (Johann Gottfried Herder): Pre-Emergent Colonial Epistemologies in Indian-German Entanglements, Showcased in Protestant Theology c.1800 -- In Search of the Entanglement: German Orientalism, a Specific Understanding of Wissenschaft, and Their Relationship to Colonialism -- Hebrew People as Role Models: Theology in a New Era of Ethnography -- The Old Testament as a Space for the German Colonial Imagination and Johann Gottfried Herder as an Intermediary -- To Read in an Indian Way: The Romanticized Orient -- Interlude: India as Method? -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: In Search of Purity: German-Speaking Vegetarians and the Lure of India (1833-1939) -- India and German Vormärz Vegetarianism -- Indian Connections with German Theosophists -- German Buddhists on the Subcontinent -- Aryanism Without Hindus: Mazdaznan -- Völkisch Vegetarianism: Claims to Teutonic Superiority -- German Vegetarians and the Cult of the Ascetic Leader in Weimar Germany -- Contacts with the Indian Independence Movement in the Interwar Period -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Indian Challenge: Indology and New Conceptions of Christianity as 'Religion' at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- The Challenge -- The Antagonism of Religion and Science and the Birth of a New Concept of Religion -- The Problem of Religious History -- India and the 'Religion of the Future' -- Oldenberg's Role in Troeltsch's Philosophy of Religions -- Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg's Buddha (1881) -- Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg's The Religion of the Veda (1894). , Summary of Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Death and Transfiguration: Religion and Belonging in Felix Gotthelf's Indian Opera Mahadeva (1910) -- Faith and Modernity: A Difficult Relationship -- A Forgotten Indian Opera -- Mahadeva: The Plot -- Press Reaction -- Schopenhauer, Wagner, and the Redemption Dramas -- Wagner's Share: Mahadeva-A Cosmic Drama About Love, Death, and Salvation -- 'Büßerin in der Hülle des Zauberweibs' (Penitent in the Cloak of the Sorceress): Obsession or Liberation? -- Schopenhauer's Share: Maya, the Will, and Pessimism -- Gotthelf and the Indian Renaissance -- The Role of Religion in National Identity: Some Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: The Indian Parsifal: Revisiting Felix Gotthelf's Forgotten Opera Mahadeva -- An Artist's Biography -- The Tail of Wagner's Comet -- The Indian Parsifal -- The Final Threshold -- Conclusion: The Possibility of Revision -- References -- Chapter 7: Modernism in Disguise? Neglected Aspects of the So-Called Revival of a Classical Indian Dance Form -- Previous Research and Open Questions -- Indian Influences on Western Performing Arts -- Developments in India's Performing and Visual Arts -- Earlier and Later 'Revivals' of the South Asian Performing Arts -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: 'The Priestess of Hindu Dance': Leila Sokhey's Repertoire and Its Reception in the Netherlands and Germany (1927-38) -- Indian Debut -- Preparing for the European Stage -- Constructing Continuity -- Artistic Individuality -- Where the Gods Are Nigh: Dutch Reception -- 'Noble Grace in the Highest Perfection': German Reviews -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Roaming Between East and West: In Search of Religious Ecstasy in the Interwar Period -- Sources and Steps Ahead -- 'A Sea of Ecstasy' -- The Convert Register -- Parallel Experiences. , The 1880 Generation -- Debating the Future of Religion -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: Negotiating Germanness with Indian Religious History: Transfers of Academic Knowledge and Notions of völkisch Belief -- Indology, Nazism, and Germanness -- Knowledge of the Other for One's Own Changing Society -- Example of History or Pre-Eminence of 'Life'? Religion, the Social Bond, and the Individual -- The Self-Realization of Life Through a Racist Evaluation of Religious Experience -- Herman Wirth and the 'Arctic Vedas': Constructing Primordial Aryan Experience and Sensational Forms -- The Artist-Philosopher-Prehistorian from Youth Movement to Ahnenerbe Foundation -- How to Draw Religious Knowledge from the Dawn of Mankind: India and Indology as Resources for Human Experience -- How to Pass on Religious Knowledge in Sensational Forms: Readings of the Rising Sun -- Conflicting Evaluations of the Origins at the Conference of the Coffee Magnate -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The Religious Factor in Nazi Cultural Politics Regarding India -- Introduction -- The Nazi Network in India -- Cultural Politics as Nazi Propaganda: Deutsche Akademie's India Institute -- Nazism, Hindu Revivalism and Aryanism -- The Gaudiya Order: Krishna Worship and Nazi Propaganda -- Playing the Aryan Card: The Arya Samaj -- Hindu Mahasabha and Nazism -- Buddhist Anti-Colonialism, Aryanism and the Nazis -- Nazi Propaganda and Islamic Nationalism -- The "German Society" of the Aligarh Muslim University -- Decline of Religion Based Propaganda -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Curating the Fragments of Local Modernities: The Menaka Digital Archive from the Perspective of Ongoing Research -- Building the Archive -- Scholarly Approaches and Focus of Research -- Artistic Research -- Aryan Bodies on Stage. , Debate on the 'Revival' of Indian Classical Dance -- Some Conclusions -- References -- Glossary -- Index of Names -- Index of Terms.

Additional Edition: Print version: Schwaderer, Isabella Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800-1945 Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 ISBN 9783031403743

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Note: Intro -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Interfaces and Entanglements -- The Historical Constellation -- The Religious Field -- The Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: 'To Read in an Indian Way' (Johann Gottfried Herder): Pre-Emergent Colonial Epistemologies in Indian-German Entanglements, Showcased in Protestant Theology c.1800 -- In Search of the Entanglement: German Orientalism, a Specific Understanding of Wissenschaft, and Their Relationship to Colonialism -- Hebrew People as Role Models: Theology in a New Era of Ethnography -- The Old Testament as a Space for the German Colonial Imagination and Johann Gottfried Herder as an Intermediary -- To Read in an Indian Way: The Romanticized Orient -- Interlude: India as Method? -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: In Search of Purity: German-Speaking Vegetarians and the Lure of India (1833-1939) -- India and German Vormärz Vegetarianism -- Indian Connections with German Theosophists -- German Buddhists on the Subcontinent -- Aryanism Without Hindus: Mazdaznan -- Völkisch Vegetarianism: Claims to Teutonic Superiority -- German Vegetarians and the Cult of the Ascetic Leader in Weimar Germany -- Contacts with the Indian Independence Movement in the Interwar Period -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Indian Challenge: Indology and New Conceptions of Christianity as 'Religion' at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- The Challenge -- The Antagonism of Religion and Science and the Birth of a New Concept of Religion -- The Problem of Religious History -- India and the 'Religion of the Future' -- Oldenberg's Role in Troeltsch's Philosophy of Religions -- Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg's Buddha (1881) -- Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg's The Religion of the Veda (1894). , Summary of Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Death and Transfiguration: Religion and Belonging in Felix Gotthelf's Indian Opera Mahadeva (1910) -- Faith and Modernity: A Difficult Relationship -- A Forgotten Indian Opera -- Mahadeva: The Plot -- Press Reaction -- Schopenhauer, Wagner, and the Redemption Dramas -- Wagner's Share: Mahadeva-A Cosmic Drama About Love, Death, and Salvation -- 'Büßerin in der Hülle des Zauberweibs' (Penitent in the Cloak of the Sorceress): Obsession or Liberation? -- Schopenhauer's Share: Maya, the Will, and Pessimism -- Gotthelf and the Indian Renaissance -- The Role of Religion in National Identity: Some Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: The Indian Parsifal: Revisiting Felix Gotthelf's Forgotten Opera Mahadeva -- An Artist's Biography -- The Tail of Wagner's Comet -- The Indian Parsifal -- The Final Threshold -- Conclusion: The Possibility of Revision -- References -- Chapter 7: Modernism in Disguise? Neglected Aspects of the So-Called Revival of a Classical Indian Dance Form -- Previous Research and Open Questions -- Indian Influences on Western Performing Arts -- Developments in India's Performing and Visual Arts -- Earlier and Later 'Revivals' of the South Asian Performing Arts -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: 'The Priestess of Hindu Dance': Leila Sokhey's Repertoire and Its Reception in the Netherlands and Germany (1927-38) -- Indian Debut -- Preparing for the European Stage -- Constructing Continuity -- Artistic Individuality -- Where the Gods Are Nigh: Dutch Reception -- 'Noble Grace in the Highest Perfection': German Reviews -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Roaming Between East and West: In Search of Religious Ecstasy in the Interwar Period -- Sources and Steps Ahead -- 'A Sea of Ecstasy' -- The Convert Register -- Parallel Experiences. , The 1880 Generation -- Debating the Future of Religion -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: Negotiating Germanness with Indian Religious History: Transfers of Academic Knowledge and Notions of völkisch Belief -- Indology, Nazism, and Germanness -- Knowledge of the Other for One's Own Changing Society -- Example of History or Pre-Eminence of 'Life'? Religion, the Social Bond, and the Individual -- The Self-Realization of Life Through a Racist Evaluation of Religious Experience -- Herman Wirth and the 'Arctic Vedas': Constructing Primordial Aryan Experience and Sensational Forms -- The Artist-Philosopher-Prehistorian from Youth Movement to Ahnenerbe Foundation -- How to Draw Religious Knowledge from the Dawn of Mankind: India and Indology as Resources for Human Experience -- How to Pass on Religious Knowledge in Sensational Forms: Readings of the Rising Sun -- Conflicting Evaluations of the Origins at the Conference of the Coffee Magnate -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The Religious Factor in Nazi Cultural Politics Regarding India -- Introduction -- The Nazi Network in India -- Cultural Politics as Nazi Propaganda: Deutsche Akademie's India Institute -- Nazism, Hindu Revivalism and Aryanism -- The Gaudiya Order: Krishna Worship and Nazi Propaganda -- Playing the Aryan Card: The Arya Samaj -- Hindu Mahasabha and Nazism -- Buddhist Anti-Colonialism, Aryanism and the Nazis -- Nazi Propaganda and Islamic Nationalism -- The "German Society" of the Aligarh Muslim University -- Decline of Religion Based Propaganda -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Curating the Fragments of Local Modernities: The Menaka Digital Archive from the Perspective of Ongoing Research -- Building the Archive -- Scholarly Approaches and Focus of Research -- Artistic Research -- Aryan Bodies on Stage. , Debate on the 'Revival' of Indian Classical Dance -- Some Conclusions -- References -- Glossary -- Index of Names -- Index of Terms.

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ISBN: 9781315623955 , 1315623951 , 9781317227557 , 1317227557 , 9781317227564 , 1317227565 , 9781317227540 , 1317227549

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Content: The use of the term "biology" to refer to a unified science of life emerged around 1800 (most prominently by scientists such as Lamarck and Treviranus, although scholarship has indicated its usage at least 30-40 years earlier). The interplay between philosophy and natural science has also accompanied the constitution of biology as a science. Philosophy of Biology Before Biology examines biological and protobiological writings from the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century (from Buffon to Cuvier; Kant to Oken; and Kielmeyer) with two major sets of questions in mind: What were the distinctive conceptual features of the move toward biology as a science? What were the relations and differences between the "philosophical" focus on the nature of living entities, and the "scientific" focus? This insightful volume produces a fresh but also systematic perspective both on the history of biology as a science and on the early versions of, in the 1960s in a post-positivist context, the philosophy of biology. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as history of science, philosophy of science and biology

Note: Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; References; 1 The idea of 'philosophy of biology before biology': a methodological provocation; Philosophy of biology before biology: an absurd idea?; Biology and philosophy of biology; Biological philosophy and philosophy of biology; 'Historical epistemology of the life sciences' and philosophy of biology; Philosophy of biology before biology: biology and the conceptual conditions of its emergence; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes , 3 Metaphysics and "vital" materialism: Émilie Du Châtelet and the origins of French vitalismIntroduction; Leibnizian organic machines; Leibnizianism among the French: Du Châtelet's synthesis; Buffon's organic molecules; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 4 The philosophical uptake of Caspar Friedrich Wolff in German philosophy after 1770: Tetens, Herder, Kant and Blumenbach; Introduction; Caspar Friedrich Wolff and epigenesis; Johann Nicolaus Tetens; Johann Gottfried Herder; Immanuel Kant; Blumenbach between Kant and Wolff; Conclusion; Notes; References , Part II: Organism and organization5 Senebier and the advent of general physiology; Introduction; Physiology and the functioning of plants; Extension of patterns to animal physiology; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6 Organization and process. Living systems between inner and outer worlds: Cuvier, Hufeland, Cabanis; Introduction; Cuvier's science of organized beings; Hufeland's reproductive organisms; Cabanis's organic networks of reaction centers; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; Part III: Systems , 7 Philosophy of ecology long before ecology: Kant's idea of an organized system of organized beingsTwo traditions of defining ecology; Ecological ideas in the physico-theological tradition; Kant's systems thinking; Kant's ecology: "organizing systems of organized bodies"; Kant's contribution to ecology; References; 8 "All is leaf ": Goethe's plant philosophy and poetry; 1 The primal plant and its organ, the leaf; 2 The metamorphosis of the leaf; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; References; 9 'Biologie': Lamarck's endeavor of a science of living entities; Introduction

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Note: Intro -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Interfaces and Entanglements -- The Historical Constellation -- The Religious Field -- The Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: 'To Read in an Indian Way' (Johann Gottfried Herder): Pre-Emergent Colonial Epistemologies in Indian-German Entanglements, Showcased in Protestant Theology c.1800 -- In Search of the Entanglement: German Orientalism, a Specific Understanding of Wissenschaft, and Their Relationship to Colonialism -- Hebrew People as Role Models: Theology in a New Era of Ethnography -- The Old Testament as a Space for the German Colonial Imagination and Johann Gottfried Herder as an Intermediary -- To Read in an Indian Way: The Romanticized Orient -- Interlude: India as Method? -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: In Search of Purity: German-Speaking Vegetarians and the Lure of India (1833-1939) -- India and German Vormärz Vegetarianism -- Indian Connections with German Theosophists -- German Buddhists on the Subcontinent -- Aryanism Without Hindus: Mazdaznan -- Völkisch Vegetarianism: Claims to Teutonic Superiority -- German Vegetarians and the Cult of the Ascetic Leader in Weimar Germany -- Contacts with the Indian Independence Movement in the Interwar Period -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Indian Challenge: Indology and New Conceptions of Christianity as 'Religion' at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- The Challenge -- The Antagonism of Religion and Science and the Birth of a New Concept of Religion -- The Problem of Religious History -- India and the 'Religion of the Future' -- Oldenberg's Role in Troeltsch's Philosophy of Religions -- Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg's Buddha (1881) -- Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg's The Religion of the Veda (1894). , Summary of Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Death and Transfiguration: Religion and Belonging in Felix Gotthelf's Indian Opera Mahadeva (1910) -- Faith and Modernity: A Difficult Relationship -- A Forgotten Indian Opera -- Mahadeva: The Plot -- Press Reaction -- Schopenhauer, Wagner, and the Redemption Dramas -- Wagner's Share: Mahadeva-A Cosmic Drama About Love, Death, and Salvation -- 'Büßerin in der Hülle des Zauberweibs' (Penitent in the Cloak of the Sorceress): Obsession or Liberation? -- Schopenhauer's Share: Maya, the Will, and Pessimism -- Gotthelf and the Indian Renaissance -- The Role of Religion in National Identity: Some Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: The Indian Parsifal: Revisiting Felix Gotthelf's Forgotten Opera Mahadeva -- An Artist's Biography -- The Tail of Wagner's Comet -- The Indian Parsifal -- The Final Threshold -- Conclusion: The Possibility of Revision -- References -- Chapter 7: Modernism in Disguise? Neglected Aspects of the So-Called Revival of a Classical Indian Dance Form -- Previous Research and Open Questions -- Indian Influences on Western Performing Arts -- Developments in India's Performing and Visual Arts -- Earlier and Later 'Revivals' of the South Asian Performing Arts -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: 'The Priestess of Hindu Dance': Leila Sokhey's Repertoire and Its Reception in the Netherlands and Germany (1927-38) -- Indian Debut -- Preparing for the European Stage -- Constructing Continuity -- Artistic Individuality -- Where the Gods Are Nigh: Dutch Reception -- 'Noble Grace in the Highest Perfection': German Reviews -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Roaming Between East and West: In Search of Religious Ecstasy in the Interwar Period -- Sources and Steps Ahead -- 'A Sea of Ecstasy' -- The Convert Register -- Parallel Experiences. , The 1880 Generation -- Debating the Future of Religion -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: Negotiating Germanness with Indian Religious History: Transfers of Academic Knowledge and Notions of völkisch Belief -- Indology, Nazism, and Germanness -- Knowledge of the Other for One's Own Changing Society -- Example of History or Pre-Eminence of 'Life'? Religion, the Social Bond, and the Individual -- The Self-Realization of Life Through a Racist Evaluation of Religious Experience -- Herman Wirth and the 'Arctic Vedas': Constructing Primordial Aryan Experience and Sensational Forms -- The Artist-Philosopher-Prehistorian from Youth Movement to Ahnenerbe Foundation -- How to Draw Religious Knowledge from the Dawn of Mankind: India and Indology as Resources for Human Experience -- How to Pass on Religious Knowledge in Sensational Forms: Readings of the Rising Sun -- Conflicting Evaluations of the Origins at the Conference of the Coffee Magnate -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The Religious Factor in Nazi Cultural Politics Regarding India -- Introduction -- The Nazi Network in India -- Cultural Politics as Nazi Propaganda: Deutsche Akademie's India Institute -- Nazism, Hindu Revivalism and Aryanism -- The Gaudiya Order: Krishna Worship and Nazi Propaganda -- Playing the Aryan Card: The Arya Samaj -- Hindu Mahasabha and Nazism -- Buddhist Anti-Colonialism, Aryanism and the Nazis -- Nazi Propaganda and Islamic Nationalism -- The "German Society" of the Aligarh Muslim University -- Decline of Religion Based Propaganda -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Curating the Fragments of Local Modernities: The Menaka Digital Archive from the Perspective of Ongoing Research -- Building the Archive -- Scholarly Approaches and Focus of Research -- Artistic Research -- Aryan Bodies on Stage. , Debate on the 'Revival' of Indian Classical Dance -- Some Conclusions -- References -- Glossary -- Index of Names -- Index of Terms.

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Series Statement: Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies

Note: Intro -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Interfaces and Entanglements -- The Historical Constellation -- The Religious Field -- The Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: 'To Read in an Indian Way' (Johann Gottfried Herder): Pre-Emergent Colonial Epistemologies in Indian-German Entanglements, Showcased in Protestant Theology c.1800 -- In Search of the Entanglement: German Orientalism, a Specific Understanding of Wissenschaft, and Their Relationship to Colonialism -- Hebrew People as Role Models: Theology in a New Era of Ethnography -- The Old Testament as a Space for the German Colonial Imagination and Johann Gottfried Herder as an Intermediary -- To Read in an Indian Way: The Romanticized Orient -- Interlude: India as Method? -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: In Search of Purity: German-Speaking Vegetarians and the Lure of India (1833-1939) -- India and German Vormärz Vegetarianism -- Indian Connections with German Theosophists -- German Buddhists on the Subcontinent -- Aryanism Without Hindus: Mazdaznan -- Völkisch Vegetarianism: Claims to Teutonic Superiority -- German Vegetarians and the Cult of the Ascetic Leader in Weimar Germany -- Contacts with the Indian Independence Movement in the Interwar Period -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Indian Challenge: Indology and New Conceptions of Christianity as 'Religion' at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- The Challenge -- The Antagonism of Religion and Science and the Birth of a New Concept of Religion -- The Problem of Religious History -- India and the 'Religion of the Future' -- Oldenberg's Role in Troeltsch's Philosophy of Religions -- Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg's Buddha (1881) -- Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg's The Religion of the Veda (1894). , Summary of Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Death and Transfiguration: Religion and Belonging in Felix Gotthelf's Indian Opera Mahadeva (1910) -- Faith and Modernity: A Difficult Relationship -- A Forgotten Indian Opera -- Mahadeva: The Plot -- Press Reaction -- Schopenhauer, Wagner, and the Redemption Dramas -- Wagner's Share: Mahadeva-A Cosmic Drama About Love, Death, and Salvation -- 'Büßerin in der Hülle des Zauberweibs' (Penitent in the Cloak of the Sorceress): Obsession or Liberation? -- Schopenhauer's Share: Maya, the Will, and Pessimism -- Gotthelf and the Indian Renaissance -- The Role of Religion in National Identity: Some Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: The Indian Parsifal: Revisiting Felix Gotthelf's Forgotten Opera Mahadeva -- An Artist's Biography -- The Tail of Wagner's Comet -- The Indian Parsifal -- The Final Threshold -- Conclusion: The Possibility of Revision -- References -- Chapter 7: Modernism in Disguise? Neglected Aspects of the So-Called Revival of a Classical Indian Dance Form -- Previous Research and Open Questions -- Indian Influences on Western Performing Arts -- Developments in India's Performing and Visual Arts -- Earlier and Later 'Revivals' of the South Asian Performing Arts -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: 'The Priestess of Hindu Dance': Leila Sokhey's Repertoire and Its Reception in the Netherlands and Germany (1927-38) -- Indian Debut -- Preparing for the European Stage -- Constructing Continuity -- Artistic Individuality -- Where the Gods Are Nigh: Dutch Reception -- 'Noble Grace in the Highest Perfection': German Reviews -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Roaming Between East and West: In Search of Religious Ecstasy in the Interwar Period -- Sources and Steps Ahead -- 'A Sea of Ecstasy' -- The Convert Register -- Parallel Experiences. , The 1880 Generation -- Debating the Future of Religion -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: Negotiating Germanness with Indian Religious History: Transfers of Academic Knowledge and Notions of völkisch Belief -- Indology, Nazism, and Germanness -- Knowledge of the Other for One's Own Changing Society -- Example of History or Pre-Eminence of 'Life'? Religion, the Social Bond, and the Individual -- The Self-Realization of Life Through a Racist Evaluation of Religious Experience -- Herman Wirth and the 'Arctic Vedas': Constructing Primordial Aryan Experience and Sensational Forms -- The Artist-Philosopher-Prehistorian from Youth Movement to Ahnenerbe Foundation -- How to Draw Religious Knowledge from the Dawn of Mankind: India and Indology as Resources for Human Experience -- How to Pass on Religious Knowledge in Sensational Forms: Readings of the Rising Sun -- Conflicting Evaluations of the Origins at the Conference of the Coffee Magnate -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The Religious Factor in Nazi Cultural Politics Regarding India -- Introduction -- The Nazi Network in India -- Cultural Politics as Nazi Propaganda: Deutsche Akademie's India Institute -- Nazism, Hindu Revivalism and Aryanism -- The Gaudiya Order: Krishna Worship and Nazi Propaganda -- Playing the Aryan Card: The Arya Samaj -- Hindu Mahasabha and Nazism -- Buddhist Anti-Colonialism, Aryanism and the Nazis -- Nazi Propaganda and Islamic Nationalism -- The "German Society" of the Aligarh Muslim University -- Decline of Religion Based Propaganda -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Curating the Fragments of Local Modernities: The Menaka Digital Archive from the Perspective of Ongoing Research -- Building the Archive -- Scholarly Approaches and Focus of Research -- Artistic Research -- Aryan Bodies on Stage. , Debate on the 'Revival' of Indian Classical Dance -- Some Conclusions -- References -- Glossary -- Index of Names -- Index of Terms.

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Series Statement: Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies

Note: Intro -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Interfaces and Entanglements -- The Historical Constellation -- The Religious Field -- The Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: 'To Read in an Indian Way' (Johann Gottfried Herder): Pre-Emergent Colonial Epistemologies in Indian-German Entanglements, Showcased in Protestant Theology c.1800 -- In Search of the Entanglement: German Orientalism, a Specific Understanding of Wissenschaft, and Their Relationship to Colonialism -- Hebrew People as Role Models: Theology in a New Era of Ethnography -- The Old Testament as a Space for the German Colonial Imagination and Johann Gottfried Herder as an Intermediary -- To Read in an Indian Way: The Romanticized Orient -- Interlude: India as Method? -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: In Search of Purity: German-Speaking Vegetarians and the Lure of India (1833-1939) -- India and German Vormärz Vegetarianism -- Indian Connections with German Theosophists -- German Buddhists on the Subcontinent -- Aryanism Without Hindus: Mazdaznan -- Völkisch Vegetarianism: Claims to Teutonic Superiority -- German Vegetarians and the Cult of the Ascetic Leader in Weimar Germany -- Contacts with the Indian Independence Movement in the Interwar Period -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Indian Challenge: Indology and New Conceptions of Christianity as 'Religion' at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- The Challenge -- The Antagonism of Religion and Science and the Birth of a New Concept of Religion -- The Problem of Religious History -- India and the 'Religion of the Future' -- Oldenberg's Role in Troeltsch's Philosophy of Religions -- Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg's Buddha (1881) -- Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg's The Religion of the Veda (1894). , Summary of Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Death and Transfiguration: Religion and Belonging in Felix Gotthelf's Indian Opera Mahadeva (1910) -- Faith and Modernity: A Difficult Relationship -- A Forgotten Indian Opera -- Mahadeva: The Plot -- Press Reaction -- Schopenhauer, Wagner, and the Redemption Dramas -- Wagner's Share: Mahadeva-A Cosmic Drama About Love, Death, and Salvation -- 'Büßerin in der Hülle des Zauberweibs' (Penitent in the Cloak of the Sorceress): Obsession or Liberation? -- Schopenhauer's Share: Maya, the Will, and Pessimism -- Gotthelf and the Indian Renaissance -- The Role of Religion in National Identity: Some Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: The Indian Parsifal: Revisiting Felix Gotthelf's Forgotten Opera Mahadeva -- An Artist's Biography -- The Tail of Wagner's Comet -- The Indian Parsifal -- The Final Threshold -- Conclusion: The Possibility of Revision -- References -- Chapter 7: Modernism in Disguise? Neglected Aspects of the So-Called Revival of a Classical Indian Dance Form -- Previous Research and Open Questions -- Indian Influences on Western Performing Arts -- Developments in India's Performing and Visual Arts -- Earlier and Later 'Revivals' of the South Asian Performing Arts -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: 'The Priestess of Hindu Dance': Leila Sokhey's Repertoire and Its Reception in the Netherlands and Germany (1927-38) -- Indian Debut -- Preparing for the European Stage -- Constructing Continuity -- Artistic Individuality -- Where the Gods Are Nigh: Dutch Reception -- 'Noble Grace in the Highest Perfection': German Reviews -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Roaming Between East and West: In Search of Religious Ecstasy in the Interwar Period -- Sources and Steps Ahead -- 'A Sea of Ecstasy' -- The Convert Register -- Parallel Experiences. , The 1880 Generation -- Debating the Future of Religion -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: Negotiating Germanness with Indian Religious History: Transfers of Academic Knowledge and Notions of völkisch Belief -- Indology, Nazism, and Germanness -- Knowledge of the Other for One's Own Changing Society -- Example of History or Pre-Eminence of 'Life'? Religion, the Social Bond, and the Individual -- The Self-Realization of Life Through a Racist Evaluation of Religious Experience -- Herman Wirth and the 'Arctic Vedas': Constructing Primordial Aryan Experience and Sensational Forms -- The Artist-Philosopher-Prehistorian from Youth Movement to Ahnenerbe Foundation -- How to Draw Religious Knowledge from the Dawn of Mankind: India and Indology as Resources for Human Experience -- How to Pass on Religious Knowledge in Sensational Forms: Readings of the Rising Sun -- Conflicting Evaluations of the Origins at the Conference of the Coffee Magnate -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The Religious Factor in Nazi Cultural Politics Regarding India -- Introduction -- The Nazi Network in India -- Cultural Politics as Nazi Propaganda: Deutsche Akademie's India Institute -- Nazism, Hindu Revivalism and Aryanism -- The Gaudiya Order: Krishna Worship and Nazi Propaganda -- Playing the Aryan Card: The Arya Samaj -- Hindu Mahasabha and Nazism -- Buddhist Anti-Colonialism, Aryanism and the Nazis -- Nazi Propaganda and Islamic Nationalism -- The "German Society" of the Aligarh Muslim University -- Decline of Religion Based Propaganda -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Curating the Fragments of Local Modernities: The Menaka Digital Archive from the Perspective of Ongoing Research -- Building the Archive -- Scholarly Approaches and Focus of Research -- Artistic Research -- Aryan Bodies on Stage. , Debate on the 'Revival' of Indian Classical Dance -- Some Conclusions -- References -- Glossary -- Index of Names -- Index of Terms.

Additional Edition: ISBN 3-031-40374-6

Language: English